Having good leadership is the rage these days, yet few can define exactly what that means. Many think leadership is about intuition. I couldn’t disagree more. I believe organizations should find good leaders by having a good definition of what a leader is—and then providing Hogan Assessments to obtain data to see if potential and… [Read More]

Leaders should have development action plans, and they should be readily accessible to change with new insights. This isn’t a new idea, but few leaders actually think having a leadership development action plan is either worthwhile or necessary. Boy, are they wrong. In my more than 15 years of working with developing leaders, what glaringly… [Read More]

It may seem counter-intuitive, but never, ever consider speaking to a journalist before determining your role in their story. Are you the protagonist, antagonist, witness, hero? At the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, I taught MBA students to consider the anatomy of a news story to strategically dissect the likely scenario and their role in… [Read More]